More than twenty French productions and majority-French co-productions (and almost as many minority co-productions) are presented at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) (January 23—February 3, 2019), an event that continues to highlight recent independent and avant-garde works on the margins of traditional filmmaking.
The Rotterdam International Film Festival, founded in 1972, has cemented its position over the years as a major "headhunter" for filmmakers who explore the forms and boundaries of cinema.
A key event on the movie industry calendar, Rotterdam offers a wide range of different sections, including two competitive selections—Bright Future and Voices. French independent filmmaking and experimental works are represented this year by Virgil Vernier and Isabelle Prim in the Bright Future program and, in the Voices section, by the singular female directors Marina De Van (for the world premiere of My Nudity Means Nothing), Eva Ionesco, and Fabienne Godet, who take their place alongside the radical adventures of Merzak Allouache, in the world of politics, and Yann Gonzalez in the aesthetic realm.
In the Limelight section, Catherine Corsini will be in attendance for the screening of An Impossible Love, and Claire Denis will be at the festival to discuss High Life, which features in the Signature section.
All the French films at the festival (including coproductions)
Bright Future
- Sophia Antipolis by Virgil Vernier
- Mens by Isabelle Prim
- Manta Ray by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
- Alva, by Ido Costa (minority coproduction)
- The Mercy of the Jungle by Joël Karekezi (minority coproduction)
- The Load by Ognjen Glavonic (minority coproduction)
- The Man Who Surprised Everyone by Natasha Merkulova, Alexei Chupov (minority coproduction)
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Bi Gan (minority coproduction)
Voices
- Divine Winds by Merzak Allouache
- Knife + Heart by Yann Gonzalez
- My Nudity Means Nothing by Marina De Van
- Golden Youth by Eva Ionesco
- Our Wonderful Lives by Fabienne Godet
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? by Roberto Minervini (minority coproduction)
- Cities of Last Things by Wi Ding Ho (minority coproduction)
Limelight
- An Impossible Love by Catherine Corsini
- Pearl by Elsa Amiel
- Real Love by Claire Burger
- Climax by Gaspar Noé
- Non-Fiction by Olivier Assayas
- Sofia by Meryem Benm'Barek
- Asako I & II by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (minority coproduction)
- Keep Going by Joachim Lafosse (minority coproduction)
- Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa (minority coproduction)
- Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher (minority coproduction)
- Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang-Ke (minority coproduction)
- A Land Imagined by Siew Hua Yeo(minority co-production)
- Leto (The Summer) by Kirill Serebrennikov (minority coproduction)
- Rojo by Benjamín Naishtat (minority coproduction)
- Tel Aviv on Fire by Sameh Zoabi (minority coproduction)
Scopitone
Signature
- White Noise by Antoine D'Agata
- The Image Book by Jean-Luc Godard
- Our Time (Was to Defend our Island) by Carlos Reygadas (minority coproduction)
- High Life by Claire Denis (minority coproduction)
Rotterdämmerung
- Murder me, Monster by Alejandro Fadel (minority coproduction)
Rabbit Hole
- Diamantino by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt (minority coproduction)
Regained
- The Labyrinth by Laura Huertas Millán (minority coproduction)
The Spying Thing
- Sunset by László Nemes (minority coproduction)
Short Films—Tiger Awards Competition
- Silence of the Sirens by Diana Vidrascu
- Anteu by João Vladimiro
- Ultramarine by Vincent Meesen
Bright Future Shorts
- Toli Toli by Minia Biabiany
- Printed Sunset by Andrés Baron
- Midnight Orange by Gautam Valluri
- The Sound Drifts by Stefano Canapa
- Hearths by Paul Heintz
- Tropics by Mathilde Lavenne
Voices Shorts
Say No More (Shorts)
- Blue by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The Window of Dreams, by Cendrine Robelin
- Or / Or, Hawick, May 18, by Jacques Perconte
- Sisyphus, by Driss Aroussi
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